Book #21: The Quickening
Antarctica and motherhood.
Hi friends! This is Book Club for the Planet, an online community for us to read about the climate crisis in community. Looking for even more to read? Check out my new Substack where I write about writing, climate collapse and adaptation, sci-fi, speculative fiction, life on other worlds, and more.
Thank you for everyone who joined us for virtual and in-person conversations about Stolen! We ran out of time during both meet-ups to unpack everything in this book, but it was one of our richest conversations yet and I encourage everyone to read it if they haven’t already. Thank you to one of our book clubbers who recommended this great podcast about Stolen, which I just loved listening to. They dig in on topics that we didn’t get much time to discuss, including queering some of the characters (I support this reading of the book!) and policing.
Our next book is The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush. Am I excited? Dear reader, I am excited. This book has been on my radar since 2022-ish when Rush, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her previous book about rising sea levels (aptly named Rising), shared that she was working on a book about Antarctica and motherhood. Wow, what a winning combo. This one is for everyone who has grieved calving glaciers, struggles with parenthood during the climate crisis, loves scientific expedition stories, and craves a little hope.
For continued reading, check out Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1982 short story, “Sur”; Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy; Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons by Joe Shute; and Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua. And follow Esther Horvath on Instagram!
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Happy reading and see you in March! ✨